Ingénieur Supaéro - domaine Systèmes spatiaux
- Organisation : ISAE (SUPAERO - ENSICA)
- Way of training : initial training
- Language: French , English
- Place: Toulouse
- Entry level : Bac + 4
Course Details
Objectives : SUPAERO Engineering diploma (or certificate for substitutions from the GEA schools or European Universities)
Concerned public : French or foreign students studying for an Engineering Diploma (double diploma agreements), GEA or European participants, students at applying Polytechnique schools.
Prerequisites : second year of SUPAERO Engineering school and the GEA (French Baccalauréat +4), or equivalent level from European or foreign partner Universities.
Admission requirements : Competitive entrance examination or student record.
Duration and terms : 1 to 3 years depending on the initial level
Partnerships with national organisations : INSA Toulouse, for Satellite Imaging
Dedicated web site : http://www.isae.fr/fr/les_formations/cycle_ingenieur_supaero/le_cursus/la_3e_annee.html
Course last updated: 29/03/12
Topics covered
- Engineering
- Space environment and space mechanics
- Physical characteristics of the space environment
- Launcher and space vehicle dynamics, launch and re-entry trajectories, guidance, piloting, manoeuvres
- Management of space traffic,space debris
- Operations, integration tests, environmental tests, launch, positioning and station-keeping phase,operational phase
- Satellite constellation
- Architecture and technologies of embedded systems
- Mechanical architecture, materials and structures of space vehicles, structural dynamics of spacecraft and launcher
- Electrical architecture and power management
- Electronic and computing architecture
- In-space propagation, telemetry, commands
- Space propulsion
- Thermal architecture of spacecrafts
- Orientation control and in-space docking
- Launchers, space transportation systems, Launch bases, safety and security
- Engineering, design and specific developments
- Integration and tests
- Launch base ( control center, launch complex, related logistics, measures facilities)
- Satellites, Space probes, balloons
- Engineering, specific designs and developments
- Payload technologies, scientific instrumentation
- Ground segments, data bases, acquisitions, transmissions, processings
- Human flights and space stations
- Engineering, design and development specific to human flights
- Space stations
- Space crew training, space medicine
- Project management specific to space systems, associated product ans quality assurance
- Applications
- Earth observation
- Remote sensing and imagery
- Surveillance, prevention of risk, regional planning
- Cartography and geographical data systems
- Meteorology, oceanography and climatic environment
- Geophysics
- Radiocommunications, guidance and location by satellite
- Space radio communications, telephony, direct digital broadcasting and/or television by satellite, high-speed bidirectional communications and digital divide, telemedicine, remote training
- Communication, navigation, telemonitoring for military and civil aviation
- Location, data collection, safety, security, transportation
- Exploration of Space
- Understanding the Universe
- Extraterrestrial life and intelligence
- Embedded scientific experiments
- Life and medical science
- Physics and Technology
- Space and society
- Education, training and remote aid to training
- Space politics
- Space law
- Space economics
- Space and defence
- Space: history and future
- Repercussions of space exploration
- Combination of several applications